The recent Change Healthcare hack is about more than just getting your claims to the payors or having prescriptions work. It's also about the payments making it to your bank account. Paul Vanchiere and I are going to discuss this, and quite a bit mor...
Let's be clear from the start: it's not easy to answer the stated question, "How long does it take for insurance payments to catch up to vaccine cost increases?" Often, the answer is, "Never." Plenty of you have contracts whose vaccine payments haven...
Welcome to the free 2024 RVU Calculator. As you may know, the AMA won’t let anyone freely distribute an RVU calculator that includes CPT codes without signing a limiting and expensive licensing agreement. In an abundance of caution and, because in ou...
Just last week, the Feds finally posted the 2024 RVUs in the official spot I like to retrieve them from - I don't know why they were so late, we even had to write to them to see what the delay was. No response, yet, but POOF! they appeared.
This has been too long coming. Before I continue with the details, I must thank Dr. Suzanne Berman for spotting a mistake in the tool! She pointed out one of those doozies that was so obvious, I couldn't see it.
I had a great time speaking to Drs. Bravo and Rogu on their growing podcast, The Pediatric Lounge, to discuss the state of independent pediatricians and the use of data in a pediatric practice. They are cranking out episodes (which is a good thing) and anyone who supports independent pediatricians should tune in to their effort. What they are doing takes a tremendous amount of work and their guest list is amazing (well, besides me). They turned our conversation into back-to-back episodes (32 and 33), "Independent Pediatric Practice 2022" and "Data Data Data and Managing a Pediatric Office." If you prefer video, you catch up on their YouTube channel.